Alexandee copley



(NoModeL) A. COPLEY. Milk Cooling Room. No. 243,54. Patented June 28,1881..

g a 2 2 2 a %J ATTORN EY UNITED ASTATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER COPLEY, OF ANTWERP,-NEW YORK.

MILK-COOLING ROOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,514, dated June 28, 1881.

Application filed June 12, 1880. (No model.)

To all 'whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER COPLEY, of Antwerp, in the county of Jeft'erson and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvementin Milk-Coolin g Rooms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, nakinga part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a vertical seetional View of my improved milk-cooling room, and Fg. 2 is a detail top view of the ice box or trough. e

This invention has'relation to improvements in milk-cooling roons; and it consistsin combinng, with a room in which the milk-pans are placed, ice-boxes Suspended from the ceiling of the room and an inclined trough which receives the drip from the said boxes and delivers it beyond the pans, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates the milk-room, having therein on its floor the pans B, supported 011 stands or legs a, and provided with the usual water-pipes for taking ofi' the animal heat.

C indicates shallow boxes, made water-tight and Suspended from the roof in a horizontal position by means of the hangers D. These boxes are Suspended sufeiently high to allow the attendant to pass under them in his attendance on the pans. They are provided on their bottoms with rails a', upon which the lumps of ice are placed, and in their bottoms with braneh passages i, passing to all parts of the box under the rails a', and discharging the drip from the ice into a central main passage, c, wlence it flows through a spout, d, into an inclined gutter or trough, Gr. This trough is Suspended from the ice-boxes by means of the hangers e, and it receives the drp from all of said boxes, conducting it past the pans into a suitable receptacle; Theicein the boxes cools the air in the upper partvof the room, causing it to descend to the pans, cooling the milk effectually. After losing part of its refrigerant properties it'again rises to the* ice, is again cooled, and descends to the pans. Thus a constant circulation of air is kept up in 'the room, producng that uniform temperature so conducive to the fornation of cream, the interspaces between the boxes and the walls of the room being large enough to render this circulation uninterrupted and free.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a milk-cooling room, the conbination of the ice-boxes G, Suspended from the ceiling by means of hangers D, and having in their bottoms branch passagesi and central main passages, c, and drip-spouts d, and above the passages the ice-receiving rails a with the gutter Gr, connecting the ice-boxes by means of hangers e', whereby the drip from the boxes is car ried through the spout d into the gutter G, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER OOPLEY.

Witnesses:

N. B. BRUM,

- GEO. T. SHULL. 

